Famous Quotes & Sayings

Noreena Hertz

Back in the 1970s, Kodak tried to give $25m to a black civil rights organisation in Rochester, New York. The company's shareholders rose up in arms: making this politically charged offering wasn't the reason they had entrusted Kodak with their money. The donation was withdrawn.

William Campbell

There could be a number of reasons why the number of voters is larger in one ward than the other - there could be more people who actually register, or there could be a discrepancy in the number of children, ... One thing that surprised me is that there have been some huge (housing) developments in the city that I figured would have charged the demographics, but that's not been the case.

Bill Chapman

We were charged $150 for putting a piece of tissue paper in a carton.

John Stokes

Charged us about $40 a month to pick-up our waste vegetable oil,

Mike Rogers

But when those institutions that are charged with upholding the public trust refuse to live up to their responsibilities, someone must draw the line.

Sulejman Tihic

Milosevic will be remembered as a negative historical individual and a dictator, and the first statesman charged with genocide.

Tim Thornton

I think federal judges are pretty much charged with interpreting federal cases.

Bonnie Musfelt

People just don't realize, yeah, we get charged for this stuff.

Alan Johnson

It is difficult today to be a professional athlete. It's difficult when you're charged with this for anyone, but especially difficult if you are a professional athlete,

Mike Leavitt

Schools are fundamentally local creatures, and they need, while there is a national interest, and we need a national obsession with improvement of schools, it must not become a federal agenda.

Alex Penelas

We are holding the federal government responsible, and specifically (Attorney General) Janet Reno and the president of the United States, for anything that may occur in this community,

David Phelps

We are heavily focused on the federal marketplace; it's 98 percent of our revenue.

Don Heller

Federal law is supreme, and the state proposition, notwithstanding, is meaningless.

Alexander Hamilton

It will be well to advert to the proportion between the objects that will require a federal provision in respect to revenue; and those which will require a state provision. We shall discover that the former are altogether unlimited; and that the latter are circumscribed within very moderate bounds.

Ben Bernanke

The Federal Reserve cannot solve all the economy's problems on its own.

Pam Compton

Making good use of federal databases helps state programs immensely, but local information is invaluable. These are people who know these communities, they live and work there.

Tisha Tallman

Legislation introduced in Georgia is in violation of federal law.

Dalton McGuinty

So I am, in fact, very optimistic about the future of my federal party.

David Frum

Judges in the mould of Scalia and Thomas were the 'no new taxes' pledge of this presidency.

Jaymie Pedigo

Judges can come from the community; they don't have to be scientists.

Sharon Osbourne

Last year I thought it was all about me actually. I thought it was all about the judges and that we could do what we wanted. But it's really not, in the big scheme of things.

Adnan Agca

The judges and prosecutors are under threat and pressure.